Hopefuls try out before a demanding director for a part in a new musical.Hopefuls try out before a demanding director for a part in a new musical.Hopefuls try out before a demanding director for a part in a new musical.
- Nominated for 3 Oscars
- 8 nominations total
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Did you know
- TriviaIn the pre-Broadway run, song "Dance 10, Looks 3" was listed as "Tits and Ass", but it was changed when the production reached Broadway, the logic being if it were a surprise during the show, it would get a better audience reaction.
- GoofsIn the final dance scene at the end of the audition sequence, clearly visible are dancers who have been shown to be rejected.
This scene isn't intended to be in continuity but is more like a curtain call (as it was in the Broadway musical).
- Alternate versionsThe international print of the movie has a different opening credits sequence. All the titles appear with scenes around Manhattan, which opens the film, and then we see the shot of the theater as the dancers are lined up and walking in the theater; there is also no sound of Larry directing the dancers until the first shot inside the theater.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Zomergasten: Episode #2.1 (1989)
- SoundtracksA Chorus Line
Conceived, Choreographed, and Directed by Michael Bennett
Book of the stage play by James Kirkwood Jr. (as James Kirkwood) and Nicholas Dante
Music by Marvin Hamlisch
Lyrics by Ed Kleban (as Edward Kleban)
Produced on the stage by Joseph Papp
a New York Shakespeare Festival Presentation
Featured review
If you read most of the reviews here you can notice how negative they arfe, and even those that are nicer always have a slightly negative comment.
I know that most of the time comparison is not good and when you are talking about one of the greatest shows ever created, the screen version gets the worst part.
To be fair and if we forget about the original show the movies is very good.
The music, the dancing and the cast are totally believable. I know they cut some songs, others were modified (not for worst - Dance for me it 's brilliant) and others send a completely different message to viewers (What I did for Love).
We know that has happened before when a musical goes from stage to screen. but what we have to bear in mind is....is the final product a good movie? Yes, it is.
The only downbeat I notice in the movie is that I notice a few edits strange...for example when you can hear some lines from HELLO TWELVE and suddenly one of the boys starts singing a different song. it looks very abrupt in that moment.
To sum up A CHORUS LINE is a very good movie made in a decade when musical was not only dead but buried six feet under. So I was really impressed to see that in that decade this movie and Little shop of horrors were made and time just shows everybody that both movies deserved a better audience and better reviews.
- davidsvarez
- Feb 22, 2020
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Official site
- Language
- Also known as
- Plesaci prvog reda
- Filming locations
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $27,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $14,202,899
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $222,919
- Dec 15, 1985
- Gross worldwide
- $14,203,236
- Runtime1 hour 58 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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